A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Practical Effects
Gooey body horror that aged better than the CGI
Acting
Timothy Murphy's haunted sheriff eyes carry the whole thing
Director
Sheldon Wilson
Timothy V. Murphy
Jack Sheppard
Lindsey Stoddart
Laura Russell
Rocky Marquette
Boy
Stan Kirsch
Stuart Dempsey
Patty McCormack
Helen Reedy
Natalie Avital
Darby Owens
Tara Killian
Amy Underhill
Myron Natwick
Harvey
Steve Eastin
Detective Russell
John Kapelos
Leroy Riley
Christine Avila
Mrs. Underhill
Sheri Foster
Female Detective
Ori Pfeffer
Curtis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 18 days in California standing in for rural anywhere-USA. The budget was so tight the blood was often edible syrup.
Patty McCormack, who plays Helen, was Rhoda in the original 1956 THE BAD SEED—horror royalty slumming it in direct-to-video.
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